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Australian Beach Attack: Don’t Allow Terrorist to Walk Away – VIDEO
AmmoLand ^ | December 15, 2025 | Dean Weingarten

Posted on 12/17/2025 3:24:44 AM PST by marktwain

The recent terror attack at Bondi Beach, near Sydney, Australia, started about 6:45 p.m. on December 14, Australian time.  Two terrorists opened fire with long guns on a Jewish celebration of the first day of Hanukkah. Sixteen people are reported dead, including one of the two attackers. Two police officers are among the 38 people killed or wounded, according to Wikipedia.

In a dramatic video from 9 Australia News, a bystander, later identified as Ahmed al Ahmed, surprises one of the terrorists from behind. He puts the terrorist, who is armed with a shotgun with an extended magazine and a red dot sight, into a headlock and wrestles the shotgun from the terrorist. He points the gun at the retreating terrorist, but does not or cannot fire. He has been reported as having no knowledge of firearms. An older man approaches the retreating terrorist and throws a bottle at him.

The other terrorist, armed with a bolt-action rifle with a telescopic sight, waves for his confederate to join him on a footbridge. About 1:20 in the video, the terrorist, who was disarmed, has rearmed with another long gun and started shooting again. The man who threw the bottle has taken the shotgun and attempts to use it, but he does not appear to be successful. The man who threw the bottle is wounded, retreats, and falls down or is shot down.

At about 1:46, a police officer approaches behind the terrorist, who is armed with a scoped rifle. The officer has a handgun out and aimed at the terrorist, but does not appear to shoot.

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TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: attack; australia; banglist; beach; terror; video
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1 posted on 12/17/2025 3:24:44 AM PST by marktwain
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To: marktwain

Man in white shirt is the hero. Man in white pants is the terrorist.

2 posted on 12/17/2025 3:27:29 AM PST by marktwain (----------------------)
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To: marktwain

There are people who think the cops spent the attack hiding, perhaps their strategy was to let the gunmen exhaust themselves and they would catch them when they took a nap.


3 posted on 12/17/2025 3:29:11 AM PST by rottweiller_inc (Lupus urbem intravit. Fulminis ictu vultures super turrem exanimat.)
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To: rottweiller_inc

The attack lasted 5 minutes and 52 seconds. Some police officers did not respond well, but the terrorists were getting rounds incoming at 3 and a half minutes.

A Police officer is believed to have taken out both terrorists with pistol fire from 43 yards.


4 posted on 12/17/2025 3:31:24 AM PST by marktwain (----------------------)
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To: marktwain

Why, after 10/7, was the event so poorly secured?

The Australian government should fall over this.


5 posted on 12/17/2025 3:32:38 AM PST by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 )
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To: marktwain

This is what people who are there are saying.
https://nypost.com/2025/12/14/world-news/bondi-beach-terror-survivor-describes-how-cops-froze-during-20-minute-shooting-rampage/


6 posted on 12/17/2025 3:36:58 AM PST by rottweiller_inc (Lupus urbem intravit. Fulminis ictu vultures super turrem exanimat.)
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To: rottweiller_inc

Yes, people are saying such things.

When in a life and death situation, the mind goes into super-speed. Time seems to slow down. What is actually seconds seems like minutes.

The effect is called tachypsychia.


7 posted on 12/17/2025 3:39:04 AM PST by marktwain (----------------------)
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To: marktwain

Yes. I know what you describe and in situations like this what’s true doesn’t matter; it only matters what people think is true.


8 posted on 12/17/2025 3:43:03 AM PST by rottweiller_inc (Lupus urbem intravit. Fulminis ictu vultures super turrem exanimat.)
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To: mewzilla

Why, after 10/7, was the event so poorly secured?


Because police cannot be everywhere?

Because Australia believes gun control is the answer?

I am not certain the event was “poorly secured”. A six minute response time is faster than for some of our response to mass murder.

The way to get faster response is to have the potential victims armed, such as in the Greenwood Mall incident in Indiana. Eli Dickens fired 10 shots from 40 yards in 10 seconds and made 8 hits.

https://www.ammoland.com/2023/03/elisha-dicken-greenwood-mall-shooter-citizen-of-the-year-in-greenwood-indiana/


9 posted on 12/17/2025 3:43:50 AM PST by marktwain (----------------------)
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To: marktwain

If it were me I would have shot the terrorist I took the rifle from and then went after the others.


10 posted on 12/17/2025 3:48:03 AM PST by rfreedom4u ("You may all go to hell and I will go to Texas")
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To: rottweiller_inc

There were only two officers on duty for the event.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/only-2-cops-were-on-duty-at-sydney-hanukkah-event-hit-by-terror-attack-official-says/


11 posted on 12/17/2025 3:55:14 AM PST by READINABLUESTATE (‘Never trust a man whose uncle was eaten by cannibals’)
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To: marktwain

The “cop behind the tree” engaged in a protracted shootout with at least the “father”. The cop is off to the right in this vid:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UUlyQS9G6I

Previously I saw that, unblurred, but I can’t find it now.


12 posted on 12/17/2025 4:12:29 AM PST by Paul R. (Old Viking saying: "Never be more than 3 steps away from your weapon ... or a Uriah Heep song!" ;-))
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To: marktwain

It might have also been in the mind of the hero who disarmed the jihadi that he did not want to be confused for a perp by a cop or other bystander.


13 posted on 12/17/2025 4:44:02 AM PST by posterchild
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To: READINABLUESTATE

The feelings of the people that were there were reflected not in their hiding until the cops intervened, the way they saw the situation, they had to step in because they couldn’t count on other help.


14 posted on 12/17/2025 4:51:06 AM PST by rottweiller_inc (Lupus urbem intravit. Fulminis ictu vultures super turrem exanimat.)
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To: marktwain
When in a life and death situation, the mind goes into super-speed.

And you could have ten witnesses and each would give a different account of what they believe they saw.

15 posted on 12/17/2025 4:55:12 AM PST by Hot Tabasco
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To: marktwain

If the bad guy is down, beat him to death.

If you don’t know how, learn. It’s easy.


16 posted on 12/17/2025 5:01:06 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Deport all evil muslims. Celebrate all good Muslims.)
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To: rfreedom4u

If it were me I would have shot the terrorist I took the rifle from and then went after the others.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>.
Probably not. I’ve read the dude who grabbed the terrorist took three rounds!


17 posted on 12/17/2025 5:08:11 AM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (I decided in 2008 that I'd rather be an American than a Democrat! "Deus Hoc Vult!")
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To: rfreedom4u

Most of the people there would not have known how to release the safeties on the guns when they took them


18 posted on 12/17/2025 5:40:00 AM PST by TStro (Come and take it!)
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To: marktwain

Eli Dickens Should be
The ‘Go To’ Example.


19 posted on 12/17/2025 6:14:35 AM PST by Big Red Badger (ALL Things Will be Revealed !)
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To: marktwain

ELI DIKEN
.
Citizen of the Year Award.
.


20 posted on 12/17/2025 6:31:27 AM PST by Big Red Badger (ALL Things Will be Revealed !)
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